Authors: Yongjie Lin, Xianfeng Yang, Gang-Len Chang, and Nan Zou
Conference: 92th TRB Annual Meeting in 2013
Abstract: This paper presents a transit signal priority (TSP) model designed to consider the benefits of both bus riders and all intersection passenger car users. The proposed strategy, mainly for headway-based bus operations, offers the responsible agency a reliable way to determine the optimal green extension or red truncation duration in response to multiple bus priority requests from different routes. The control objective is to minimize bus passenger waiting time at the downstream bus stop while ensuring that the delays for all passengers are not increased. Using the field data from Jinan, China, the proposed strategy has shown its promise in reducing the bus passenger waiting time and the total intersection delay. Our further exploration with simulation experiments for sensitivity analysis has also found that TSP will be most effective if the ratio between bus and passenger volumes exceeds the threshold of 2 percent.
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